Courses taken in colleges are measured in terms of hours. Each credit hours correspond to some n hours. The hours differ from college to college and from university to university. The state or the institution sets a minimum number of credits required to graduate.
In other words it is to help meet completion requiremens for courses, allowing a student to get closer to graduating. Students are often awarded college credit hours for honors classes or for life or work experience equivalent to course training.
For example:- A 15 credit hour semester schedule would mean you should be in the classroom for 15 hours per week. That is not easy considering you need to prepare at least 2-3 hours out of class in studying and assignments.
But some institutes use this as a weightage of a course. For Example in IIM, Bangalore, courses are listed on 1, 2 or 3 credit courses depending on the indicated workload for each course. The generally accepted thumb rule is that a 3 credit course involves about 100 hours of work. Out of this 100 hours one-third is classroom and rest outside the class in preparation of assignments etc. See the credits associated with each course of the Doctoral program in IIMB. Click here.
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